3 initiatives that encourage farmers in Brazil to donate part of their production

Published 2021년 8월 14일

Tridge summary

The pandemic has posed unique challenges for Brazilian farmers, including a significant drop in consumption and questions about what to do with unwanted produce. With records in agribusiness and increasing hunger, farmers are faced with the difficult decision between destroying crops or donating them. These donations, while providing necessary food to communities, can be costly for producers due to harvesting, packaging, and logistics expenses. Despite potential financial losses, initiatives like "Do an Incredible Good" and the "productive quarantine" efforts of the Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST) have made a significant impact, donating over 5,000 tons of food and 1 million lunchboxes to needy communities in Brazil. These initiatives aim to reduce hunger and support rural employment by providing a choice of food to those receiving donations.

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Original content

Those in the field were taken by surprise by the pandemic in more ways than one. In addition to finding themselves in a sanitary risk scenario, farmers, who were used to a production pace, saw a drastic drop in consumption amidst a crop full of crops ready to be harvested. Understand how Brazil can have records in agribusiness and increase hunger at the same time In the pandemic, consumption in Brazil of vegetables and vegetables fell by 36.8% and fruit by 41.8%, according to a study by the Food Research Group for Justice: Power, Politics and Food Inequalities in Bioeconomy, headquartered at the Free University of Berlin, Germany, in partnership with the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG) and the University of Brasília (UnB). With this scenario, many farmers had to face the dilemma of what to do with this production, since leaving the planting in the land would increase the chances of pests appearing. So, there are two options left: destroy the plantations or donate them? ...

Source: G1globo